Collar holder



March 24, 1942.

E. a. LITTLE COLLAR HOLDER Filed July 15, 1940 i1 2e mvzryron A BY my:

Patented Mar. 24, 1942 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE I COLLAR HOLDER ElizabethS. Little, Milton, Fla. Application July 15, 1940, Serial No. 345,615

4 Claims.

My invention relates to devices for holding collars of the collar attached type of shirts, fiat and parallel to the body of a folded shirt for storage and display purposes, and so as to prevent crushing and wrinkling of the collar when the shirts are packed one upon the other.

One of the principal objects of the invention is to provide a device for holding the rear yoke portion of the shirt against and parallel to the back of the shirt collar.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of the character set forth that is formed from a one piece blank of material, such as cardboard or the like, and can be easily and expeditiously applied and removed with respect to the shirt, yet casual removal or displacement is practically impossible.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of the character described to be attached to a shirt collar for holding the latter neatly positioned and from becoming disarranged, mussed, or rumpled and so as to allow the shirts to be closely stacked one upon the other to take up minimum space in storage.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a device of the above described character, which is simple in construction, durable in use, efiicient in operation and economical in manufacture.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent from the following description, appended claims and annexed drawing.

Referring to the drawing wherein like reference characters designate like parts throughout the several views:

Figure l is a front elevation of a shirt having my invention applied thereto.

Figure 2 is a sectional view taken approximately on line 22 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a perspective View of my invention.

Figure 4 is a plan view of the blank.

Figure 5 is a sectional view taken on the line 5-5 of Figure 4.

In practicing my invention, as illustrated in the drawing, I provide a blank of material 5, for instance cardboard or the like, which is longitudinally folded on a centrally disposed and longitudinally extending fold line 6 to define a pair of oppositely disposed front and rear side walls 1 and 8 respectively. The front wall 1 is formed with an inverted U-shaped slot 9 defining a pair of parallel coplanar end members I!) connected together at their lower ends and in spatiality by means of a bridge section 1 l, the latter being fashioned with upper and lower portions l2 and I3 respectively. The upper and lower portions of said bridge section II are disposed interjacent and subjacent said end members l0 respectively. The jointure of the lower portion l3 with the end members Ill and upper portion I2 is arcuated as at M to dispose said end members In and said upper portion 12 outwardly and inwardly respectively with relation to said lower portion l3 and with the upper portion l2 located in a plane substantially intermediate said lower portion l3 and said rear wall 8. The upper ends of the end members H! are integrally connected to the rear wall by arciform portions [5 and which i tend to maintain said walls in spatiality.

In use, it being understood that the rear yoke portion Y of the shirt S normally subjacent the rear of the collar C is disposed in postjacent overlapped and appressed relation with the rear face of the rear portion of the collar C to provide a fold section F forming a pocket P.

The upper portion I2 of my device is inserted upwardly within thepocket P of the fold section F to dispose the end members H! in appressed overlying and prejacent relation with the front face of the rear portion of the collar and the rear wall 8 postjacent and in appressed relation with the rear face of the fold section F, while the arciform portions l5 are disposed in overlyingly embracing relation with the upper edges of the collar and the fold, section F, and the lower portion I3 is disposed subjacent the collar and the yoke portion Y, as clearly shown in Figure 2.

When the device is applied to the shirt as above set forth, it serves to maintain the collar in folded and substantially parallel relation with the front of the shirt and when the collar is thus folded it defines a pair of side creases between the front and rear portions thereof and which creases receive the end members Ill. Both the front and rear walls of the device are of a sufficient length to effect a slight bowing of said walls when the end members are disposed in said creases whereby to maintain the front and rear portions of said collar in a somewhat taut condition, and thereby maintain the front and rear portions of said collar in substantial parallelism.

Without further elaboration the foregoing will so fully explain the invention that others may, by applying current knowledge, readily adapt the same for use under various conditions of service. Moreover, it is not indispensable that all the features of the invention be used conjointly since they may be employed advantageously in various combinations and subcombinations.

It is obvious that the invention is not confined to the herein described use therefor as it may be utilized for any purpose to which it is adaptable. It is therefore to be understood that the invention is not limited to the specific construction as illustrated and described as the same is only illustrative of the principles of operation, which are capable of extended application in various forms, and that the invention comprehends all construction within the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim is:

1. In combination with a shirt of the collar attached type wherein the rear yoke portion of said shirt is disposed in overlying relation with the rear face of the rear portion of the collar of said shirt to provide a fold section forming a pocket postjacent said collar and with both the collar and said fold section disposed in flatwise relation across the shirt, a body fashioned with oppositely disposed connected walls with one of said walls overlying said fold section and the other wall provided with means overlying said front face of the rear portion of the collar, and said last mentioned wall provided with means disposed within said pocket and coacting with said first mentioned means and the wall overlying said fold section to maintain said collar in connected relation with said fold section and in said flatwise relation.

2. In combination with a shirt of the collar attached type wherein the rear yoke portion of said shirt is disposed in overlying relation with the rear face of the rear portion of the collar of said shirt to provide a fold section forming a pocket postjacent said collar and with both the collar and said fold section disposed in fiatwise relation across the shirt to provide creases in said collar between the ends of the front and rear portions of the collar, a body fashioned with oppositely disposed walls with one of said walls overlying said fold section and the other wall provided with means overlying said front face of the rear portion of the collar and extending within said creases, said last mentioned wall provided with means disposed within said pocket and coacting with said first mentioned means and the wall overlying said fold section to maintain said collar in connected relation with said fold section, and said other wall being of a length to tension said first mentioned means within said creases and thereby maintain said front and rear portions of said collar in a taut condition and in said fiatwise relation.

3. A device of the character described comprising a sheet of stiff material of elongated rectangular form folded transversely to form a pair of complementary spaced side sections, one of the side sections having a U-shaped slit cut therein, that portion of the side section within the slit bent inwardly to assume a position between and parallel with the side sections having its top and end edges detached from the section and its longitudinal bottom edge portion joined integrally with the lower marginal portion of the said side section.

4. In a shirt collar holding device, an elongated body of U-shaped cross section having complementary opposed side sections, one of the said side sections having its lower marginal portion offset inwardly toward but spaced from the opposed side section and having a U-shaped slit cut therein, that; portion within the slit being pressed inwardly of the body to assume a position parallel with and intermediate the planes of the side sections, the said inwardly pressed portion having one longitudinally extending edge joined to the marginal portion of one side section and having its opposite longitudinal edge and end edges detached from the body.

ELIZABETH S. LITTLE. 

